Acciones tomadas:
<Efforts for adults>
Started Red Cross Disaster Prevention Seminars nationwide in 2017
(2017: 581 seminars were held with 28,255 participants)
(2018: 472 seminars were held with 27,532 participants)
Conducted training for education leaders of disaster prevention every year (for Red Cross officers and volunteers). 501 leaders (271 officers and 230 volunteers) as of September 30, 2019
Have been revising the “Red Cross Disaster Prevention Seminar Guidance Manual” for leaders every year (currently the third edition)
Create and distribute 50,000 copies of the booklet “Preparing for Disasters”
<Disaster prevention education for young people>
130,000 copies of disaster prevention teaching materials “Spreading disaster prevention to protect lives” have been produced for elementary, junior high and high schools. The JRCS will make use of it as a tool for disseminating disaster prevention education to the Junior Red Cross member schools through JRCS branches nationwide.
As of January 2019, the teaching material utilization rate is 24%, the highest number among the same type of materials produced for schools in Japan.
In August 2018, the JRCS prepared disaster prevention teaching materials for kindergartens and nurseries. 4,000 copies were so far produced and distributed to the Junior Red Cross member gardens through the branch.
In April 2019, in order to promote the spread of disaster prevention teaching materials “Spreading disaster prevention to protect lives” for elementary schools, junior high schools, and high schools, the JRCS has produced 6 videos covering actual examples of use. The JRCS continues to promote further dissemination such as having disaster prevention education seminars all over the country and teaching how to use it in school classes and in group works.
